Sanctions under Art. 53 AMLD6: How costly will breaches become? How costly will breaches of the Anti-Money Laundering Act become from 2026? With AMLD6 and the new AMLA RTS drafts from February 2026, fines will rise to up to 10% of annual turnover or €5 million. The decisive factor is AMLA’s new categorisation, which draconically […]

EBA Credit Risk Consultation 2026: Simplification or Strategic Complexity? The EBA consultation is more than a technical update. It reshapes how credit risk, compliance and AML interact. The key question: real simplification – or new complexity? I. Key Timeline April 2026 Internal finalisation Coordination between Risk, Compliance and IT...

At its core, this is about the question of when a loan portfolio under the Standardised Approach is considered “sufficiently granular” in order to benefit from the privileged risk weight of 75% (instead of 100%). While the draft phase was still characterised by a bureaucratic “iterative procedure” that would have posed operational hurdles...

Entgelt-TransparenzG 2026: Wie bestimmt man rechtsssicher den neuen Compliance-Standard? Einleitung: Die Ära der gläsernen Gehaltsstruktur: Ein Wendepunkt für den europäischen Arbeitsmarkt durch das Entgelttransparenzgesetz Mit der Verabschiedung der EU-Richtlinie 2023/970 hat die Europäische Union ein sehr wirksames Instrument...